It’s raining, it’s pouring and if we’re not obsessively charging our phones and tablets and other electronic devices, we’re listening to the radio, watching the Weather Channel and communicating on every platform we can about Hurricane Sandy (#Sandy). Emergencies make news junkies of us all and it’s in an emergency that we search for information…
Lesley Gore reminds women (and men) of what’s at stake if Romney and the GOP prevail at the polls. For some reason, this affected me like no other commercial or video on the same subject. Maybe it was the diversity of women (age, ethnicity, preference). Maybe it was the anger in the lyrics. Or maybe…
Only 15 shopping days til the presidential election and it seems everyone (including the candidates) can’t wait for it to be over. But, this being America, all manner of commercial interests are getting into the act and using humor to make their pitch within the confines of a campaign. There’s Purina’s America’s Pet Debate that…
There’s the 99% and the 47%. Now meet the 29%–the percentage of people under 25 who get no news at all on a given day. Talk about the low-information voter! The October 8 Adweek surveys big data from the Pew Research Center and plots the nation’s media habits, news engagement and political leanings in a nifty…
It’s Columbus Day. What better time to discover some exceptional creative work? From the “Chamomile Tea Party” comes these highly topical, re-imagined WWII propaganda posters with pointed yet polite messages asking us to pay attention to what really matters (versus the ersatz free-speech and highly inflammatory “Civilization vs Jihad” signage that the NYC and DC…
Money, politics and advertising. The trifecta of misery this time of year. As a resident of Washington, DC, I’ve been treated to a surfeit of unimaginative attack ads, mostly centered in Virginia, which is not only a swing state in the presidential race but is engaged in a tough fight for its political and civic…